The damaging impact of trauma and neglect on a child’s mental health and wellbeing can manifest itself in many different ways, including disruption in school or refusal to engage with the very team of professionals working to improve their life chances.
If you are supporting a child who knocks over chairs or lashes out when they are angry or upset, things can soon escalate putting the safety of all concerned at risk.
Knowing why the child is misbehaving informs decisions about what action is needed. But the situation is often open to misinterpretation.
A growing number of children struggle to process vocabulary or may have a far more limited bank of words to draw from than their peers –1.5 million according to the communication charity ICAN.
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